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The Booth was built as a file-shuttle on a whim and turned into the fleet's operator-review surface without anyone deciding that. This is the decision, written down, with the measurement that forced it. The defect behind every bolt-on: one lifetime and one shape serving five jobs. Five separate mechanisms exist to put one question next to one artifact. Numbers that drove the model, taken against the live service: - 211 link rows, 145 (69%) pointing at booths that no longer exist - 22 rows that are the same bench re-posted (talk 5x, peedlar 4x) - 13 of 24 booths (54%) on the .forever escape hatch - 270 images rendered as one flat wall, subfolders discarded at render - 5 commits in one day to ship the asks primitive Four nouns replace the accretion: booth (derived lifetime), item (one record), mark (pick/note/flag -- asks, comments and votes were always one thing), and bench (a registry, not an append log). v1 is seven capabilities, each closing a measured defect. Compare mode is the best idea in the set and is parked anyway, because it is the only one that is a new capability rather than a fix.
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# The Booth — roadmap
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Design: [`docs/design/information-architecture.md`](docs/design/information-architecture.md).
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Current version: `0.1.15` (the accreted service, extracted from eshpfi 2026-09-21).
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## v1 target
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What must be true to cut 1.0. Seven capabilities, each closing a **measured**
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defect — not a wish. The measurements are in the IA doc.
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| # | capability | closes | unit |
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| 1 | **One item record** — resolved once, carried to gallery, zoom, doc, zip | captions never reach the zoom view (never sent, not lost) | U1 |
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| 2 | **Marks** — `pick` / `note` / `flag`, one primitive, one read path | 5 mechanisms for 1 job; operator→session loop runs through chat | U2 |
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| 3 | **Declared embed seam** — `/_booth/embed.js`, chrome mounts via DOM | 6 regexes injected into arbitrary author HTML, load-bearing for asks | U3 |
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| 4 | **Derived lifetime** — open marks pin; viewing is activity | 54% of booths on the `.forever` escape hatch | U4 |
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| 5 | **Self-announcing booths** — `.booth.json`, provenance on the index | job 5 had no home, so it lived on the link board as 145 dead rows | U5 |
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| 6 | **Benches** — registry, identity, enforced rule, migration | 69% link-board rot; the same bench posted 5× | U6 |
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| 7 | **Navigation at 270 items** — sections, rail, filters, grid keyboard | one flat wall; subfolder structure discarded at render | U7 |
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Ordering is dependency-driven, not priority-driven: **U1 → U2 → {U3, U4, U5} →
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U7**, with **U6 independent** of all of them (different storage, different
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surface) and therefore the safest thing to land first or in parallel.
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### Explicitly NOT in v1
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- **Backward compatibility with the `ask` CLI verbs.** Pre-1.0, and `ask` /
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`asks` / `answer` become thin aliases over `marks` rather than a second code
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path. The 17 consuming handles get one althing note naming the change — the
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one case where telling peers is real coordination and not a broadcast.
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- **A migration that deletes anything.** `links.md` is archived verbatim and
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committed before the registry is seeded from it.
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## Parking lot
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Deferred with a home, per the anti-creep gate. Default is park; these were
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weighed against the v1 path and lost on purpose.
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| item | why parked |
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| **Compare mode** — pair-by-name A/B across subfolders | The best idea in the set, and the only one that is a *new capability* rather than a fix for a measured defect. The four-booth `pancake-v3/v4` dance still works. First thing in v1.1. |
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| Virtualized / progressive grid loading | Speculative. 270 `<img loading="lazy">` may be fine. **Measure the real booth before optimising it** — if it renders inside a second, this is invented work. |
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| Bench uptime history + graphs | The v1 need is "is it dead", which one flag answers. A time series is a different product. |
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| Cross-booth search | No evidence of the need in the usage data. |
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| Per-viewer state (who has seen what) | The Booth has one viewer. Revisit if that stops being true. |
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| Auth | Standing non-goal. LAN/mesh-internal. Blur stays cosmetic and says so. |
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## Post-v1, already committed
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- **SVOS theme retrofit by `design-dev`.** Runs as a parallel track, not a v1
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gate: we own the information architecture (it is driven by the measurement
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above), design-dev owns the visual and interaction system. The handoff is a
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`/vor-ui` brief written against the landed v1 structure — the same shape
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`hamr-dev` and `pewpew-dev` used.
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## Gate
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A proposed feature is on the v1 path or it is parked. **Default: parked.** When
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both are defensible, park it — same asymmetry as the patch-default in SemVer.
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Applies regardless of who proposed it.
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